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Because when parents are in charge of their own children’s education, they will seek the best they can get, and in this age of high technology and endless resources, the very best is available to anyone who wants to look for it.

The author falsely assumes that many parents care about thier kids. This is demonstrably false.

You can look at any minority school you like - try to find a parent who bothers to attend PTA, bothers to help their child do homework, can be bothered to care if their precious little baby even attends classes.

Look at the drop-out rates of minority children. Here's a hint. If a parent cares, if a parent is involved in the SLIGHTEST - dropping out of school is simply never an option.

I submit that we would, within a single generation - have 3rd world illiteracy, and the parasites would have an ever greater stranglehold upon the achievers. Why? Because now the parasites won't be able to read/write and this will be yet another example of 'The man holding the (insert race of choice) down'.

Those are excellent points, but I think there’s a very positive angle to eliminating compulsory education: You’d get the non-serious “students” completely out of the way and allow the serious ones to get a serious education. The problem with having these social/cultural misfits in a classroom is that they reduce the lowest common denominator dramatically — and that brings the whole system down.

What is a “minority school”? Is it a school where minorities are the majority? Why would any educated parent join the PTA?

As for parents seeking the best they can get if there are/were no public schools, then I agree with you that there would be vast amounts of third worldism within years because there are a lot of parents who don’t care and haven’t a clue how to teach Johnny to read much less to do arithmetic.

I wish my father were alive today to tell me how he was educated. I know he attended public schools, but he was also very self-directed. He skipped several grades and worked every hour he could outside of school. You can’t do that nowadays. It goes against the prescribed path. (not exactly true because our oldest skipped high school altogether, took the GED, and went to university. but the education establishment frowned upon us.) I have found usefulness in a public high school that teaches technical education courses in conjunction with the local community college. My only problem with it is that the “can do” students are held back by those who can’t or won’t.